While reflecting on the financial crisis and the future of the United States in extra footage from the President's documentary “The Road We've Traveled,” U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren says the 2012 Presidential election will determine which direction the country will take.

Warren, along with Middleton immigration attorney Marisa DeFranco, is vying for the Democratic Party's nomination to take on U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., in November.

In the video clip, the consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor says that some people wonder why no one "waved a magic wand" to fix the financial collapse. Answering her own statement bluntly, she said "Because that's not how the world works."

"This next election is about the direction our country takes. It's about whether or not we are going to be a people who say, 'I got mine; the rest of you are on your own,' or whether we're going to be a people who say, 'We can invest in our future,'" Warren says in the video clip released by the Obama campaign. "And we can build a real future for ourselves and for our kids, so that when the next kid comes up with a good idea, they got a shot to make it big, and so does the kid after that and the kid after that."

Warren, who had a leading role in the 17 minute film looking at Obama's presidency, goes on to warn Americans that the choice they make at the polls in November will reflect the country's future.

"This election is going to affect everyone," she said. "We really have come to real choice and what our future looks like is going to be very different depending on who's governing."

The full Obama film, "The Road We've Traveled," can be seen below.

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